blzrul
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Punishing someone who is the owner of record of a gun used in a crime is not a bad idea however there are challenges to that which I'll get to. When our house was broken in to my wife and I decided to take some measures. One get a safe for her jewelry seeing that's pretty much what they stole. They turned over our mattress and rifled through our clothing drawers. I asked the police why and they said they were looking for guns because that's where some people (irresponsible people) keep their firearms. We also bought a gun and now own two. When we are not in our house our guns are locked in the safe. But lets say someone breaks in our house while we're asleep. Happens more than I'm afraid to admit in Oakland. The guns are out because we don't want to have to get to the safe and mess with the combination while someone is breaking in. So in this scenario they overpower us and somehow make away with our guns. They now have a gun that is registered to us. If he uses it in a crime we are now liable for some sort of punishment? What do you recommend is our punishment?
When you are not at home, secure the guns. When you are at home, take it out. That's what we did. Big old gun safe that no-one was going to carry out, or would need explosives to crack. At night, when things got scary, the gun was liberated from the safe. Just something else to add to the bedtime routine. Small price to pay.
Better idea is if guns were all fitted with thumbprint recognition locks. No matchee, not shootee. That would work for new ones, although if a retrofit WERE possible I would support a government program to pay for it.
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So you're saying — because some stranger on the Internet didn't give you solutions on a nice enough plate, it's not worth considering? It's not worth doing? It's not worth reading up on? Your solution is, what? "Stop whining"? "Get over it"? "Well, nothing can be done about guns, guys, LA Grant on the TwoBillsDrive sub-forum didn't adequately convince me in a single post that doing something is better than doing nothing. Shootings that are clearly preventable will just happen forever and there's nothing we can do."
What an entitled and lazy attitude you have here. Shame on you.
You must be new here. PPP is full of "Cliff Clavens" who know it all, have a lot of free time to pontificate and have nothing but disdain for people who don't agree with them.
I grew up with guns and know that it's unrealistic to think we'll get rid of them. There are many things that can be done to reduce the number of these types of shootings. However the culture of fear in the "Home of the Brave" drives cowards to cling to their guns above all else, as if having an arsenal in their homes is going to help when someone shoots up a McDonald's.
A solution I like is to penalize the owner of record when a crime is committed with their gun, or when a gun is used to cause harm (as in a 3-year old blows the face off a 4-year old because his chickenshirt parents can't bother to lock up their guns or watch their kids). You know - "personal responsibility". Another one is to limit the guns one can buy to handguns and hunting/sporting guns. No need for people to have things like AK47's, unless you're going to kill someone. Those guns used yesterday were purchased legally. "Oops".
However guys with little tiny penises and monsters under the bed will fight even those types of limitations, which are just common sense. Because, well, they labor under the misapprehension that if the government WANTED to enslave them, they could actually mount a defense with their little tiny guns. Of course they look stupid, which they are, but unfortunately their fear and gullibility ends up with nothing changing and innocent people getting killed.
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Your major mental malfunction in this argument is that you think the key concept at work is "religion," when it's actually "fanaticism."
To your credit, you're not alone...virtually every American shares that major mental malfunction. But it's a seriously !@#$ing major one nonetheless.
I actually agree with that. Any religion can spawn extremists. Religion is embraced for many reasons, but people who are so fearful and insecure that THEIR religion HAS to be the "best" (or only) can go off the deep end. My theory is that they're afraid that if they're betting on the wrong horse, they could burn in hell, so they better either convert, or kill, everyone else - if there's only one religion, straight path to "heaven", right?
That said, are there Buddhist extremists running around?
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By the way, it's nice to see the personal attacks are still the norm around here. I had forgotten with the passage of time that with the exception of BiB, may God rest his soul, many of you are bitter, narrow minded pinheads with no lives and too much time on your hands.
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The wicked witch is back. Are you saying that not a single black killer has been described as mentally deranged?
Nope, I'm saying that whenever a white guy shoots up a bunch of people the excuse is that he's mentally ill; the implication being that of course he's somehow less of a murderous villain then a "normal" person. Of course he's still a cowardly bully hiding behind a gun.
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Maybe they ought to simplify the damn rules. They can't even define what constitutes a catch any more. If it's open to interpretation it's a bad rule.
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White guys are always "mentally disturbed" when they do these things, haven't you noticed? Black guys and Muslims, well THEY have an agenda and they're just evil, subhuman killers. Not this this poor guy who beat his wife, peeked into windows, hurt animals, etc. Poor, dear, unbalanced creature.
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Meanwhile he killed an awesome police officer - the kind we need more of, as opposed to trigger-happy thugs - and a male war veteran. Not sure why he was there, exactly, but PP provides men's services too, for those of you too ignorant to know and arrogant to bother to find out. And lastly he killed a mother of two.She could have been there for a checkup for all you know.
PP provides very few abortions. Most of its services are just regular healthcare. And birth control (hint: abortion is NOT birth control). Less than 3% of the services are abortions and THOSE are NOT funded by your tax dollars. Abortions, actually, are on the decline, which is a good thing. You know what they say: an ounce of prevention, etc...well, perhaps you don't, but it's not my job to educate you.
You wanna go after someone, go after the docs in private practice who are raking it in doing abortions in their offices. That's where the money is.
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Every bomb we drop, every refugee who drowns in the Mediterranean, every cowardly politician who refuses to show a little compassion, plays RIGHT into the hands of Daesh. What better way to make them hate us? It creates fertile ground for recruitment. I imagine there are plenty of refugees (from beyond Syria) in this country who are witnessing the pinheaded panic first hand and probably toying with the idea of joining up.
Boots on the ground is also what they wanted. It was bin Laden's fondest dream. Because we cannot win, and it will slowly bankrupt us.
There is no military - exclusively military - answer. Military can be a part of the solution, but it has to be multi-faceted. The goal is to get the moderate people of the Middle East - the MAJORITY, who are cowed and afraid of these extremists too - to become part of the coalition against them. We don't need them to soldier for us, but we don't need to create generations of people with no lots of hatred, no hope, and nothing left to lose.
This is where the test of what it means to be America comes into play. This country was founded on tolerance, inclusion, and the willingness to take a risk. So far I see a bunch of cowardly bigots collectively crapping their pants and scuttling under the bed.
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Unless they're going to take it and raise it or never miss a child support payment - men don't get a vote.
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Wow, that's incredibly sad. So sorry to hear.
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"Simple" is for simpletons.
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the playoff tickets are expensive anyway, maybe next year is better.
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No kidding. And some of the fans take the cake too. I've lived in 3 NFL cities and the crap that Bills fans spout, and the targeting of certain players, is really something else. I've only seen it to this level in Buffalo. Losing doesn't help but even during the good years they do it. Hard to fathom.
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I think Geno got hurt yesterday too.
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Rolling Stones
[i can't get no] Satisfaction
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I think Manuel's performance vs Cincy is clearly the best of the 4 performances and really it is not even close. His performance against Jacksonville was every bit as bad as Cassel's performances though.
And it was such a shame, with the STELLAR support he got from the defense and special teams :-)
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Wow! Cassel had better stats than Aaron Rodgers! Fire Whaley!
Seriously - without Cassel the Seahags are 3-5. Well, without Cassel and the support of the usual bad officiating that always seems to favor the Seahags.
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Some Bills fans like myself want a higher standard.
Awesome. You fire Whaley. Bring in some other guy with a different philosophy. Disperse the current talent (and coaching staff) to the four corners of the universe. And end up with 15-20 MORE years of futility.
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I agree.
When I said they're the same, all I meant was that their ability to do their jobs well usually dictates how much their fans are entertained.
But you also have people who love Quentin Tarantino, so no movie that he makes can possibly be bad. Just like some people who love the Bills believe that no one on the 53 can possibly be bad.
I'm jealous of his income, you bet your ass.
I never said he refused to play. But if you want to play that asinine game, cite the source that confirms that Watkins said he wanted to play, but was told no.
I'm not the one dogging him for not playing because he's injured. You're the one insinuating he's a sandbagger. So for that to be true, it would mean he was cleared to play and wimped out. You made the insinuation, YOU prove it.
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Then he stopped.
He's a big mouthed, immature, insecure, feeble-minded moron.
The fact that he went on vacation didn't bother me one bit.
The fact that he won't play with a sprained ankle (seriously, are you fugging kidding me????), bitches about getting the ball - while he's inactive; and can't keep his mouth shut ... that's what bothers me.
He has not shown a God damn thing other than potential.
That and $1 will get you any size coffee at McDonald's.
He's a punk.
Please cite the source that confirms the Bills trainers and coaches have ordered him to play, and he refuses.
You're just jealous.
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Dude I've had season tickets almost 30 years and have lived outside WNY since 1995. I fly back for 3-4 home games every year. Some are good, many suck. I would like to kick Whaley in the shin for cutting Fred but he has brought a lot of talent aboard. The problem is the coaching staff trying to take that talent and instead of crafting offensive/defensive schemes around it, they're trying to fit the talent into what they think will work. Clearly no-one's happy and it isn't working. Will it ever? Don't know. But that's not at Whaley's door.
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Guys gets dogged by beer-swilling losers because, like every other player on bye, he takes a vacation and is naive enough to share photos of his baby girl (the light of his life) having fun. Guy gets mad and says up yours, losers. He's right. I follow his posts on Facebook etc and I have never once see him belittle someone for not doing their job, let alone having an injury or disability. His profession and income have NOTHING to do with it. He has a contract with the Buffalo Bills, not the "fans". He worked hard to get where he is. These beer-swilling losers think what he does is easy, why aren't they doing it? Maybe he shouldn't have responded but he had every right to do so. The losers make excuses saying they're frustrated. They're so stupid they apparently think the team is happy...? WTF.
I've seen Bills fans in bad lights over the past 30 years but this year is ridiculous. They're almost worse than the bandwagoning, ignorant Seahawk fans out here. Grow the hell up. If winning is the only thing that matters there are 5 undefeated teams, go cheer for them.
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Trump Alone at the Top
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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If Trump is the nominee the GOP may as well pack it in. Too bad they don't have anything but a boatload of nitwits and nutjobs running, even with Jindall and Walker dropping out.